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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.248s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
1. goldenkey ◴[28 Apr 23 06:19 UTC] No.35738059[source]▶
Built some systems, simulations, universes, automata or whatever you'd like to call them.

https://github.com/churchofthought/HexagonalComplexAutomata

https://github.com/churchofthought/ScatterLife

Was working on a new one based off of Gerard Hooft's beable theory, a superdeterminism of sorts.

But then WebGL 2.0 Beta got replaced by WebGPU. So it doesn't run anymore: https://github.com/churchofthought/Grautamaton

But here is a video of it used for a non-abelian sandpile system, when Google Chrome Beta could run it:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/NE1XU1tcdKS4ySLa9

and the resultant "cooled" equilibrium universe: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dn5jpUW9y3JMrxJi6